Fantasy Baseball

So this spring I decided to join a fantasy baseball team for the first time since about 1990. I joined a public team on Yahoo Sports, and my team is here. As of this evening at about 9:30 PM, I'm fifth in my league of twelve teams. Back in 1990, we had a league of 10 teams and the stats were updated once a week by the league secretary. Every Wednesday, the secretary bought a copy of USA Today because it carried the entire set of National League baseball stats. He'd have to update the stats of every player by hand. Now we can updates on the fly as games are in progress. I can't believe we ever tried to do it manually!

So I've been as high as 2nd in my league, and as low as dead last. One of the keys to success is to get off to a strong start, since performance is cumulative. As the season goes on the swings in ranking become smaller and smaller, because a day's performance, even if excellent, won't affect one's overall stats very much on the 100th day of the season as compared to the 10th. My pitching is pretty good right now, although my ERA tanked after some bad starts. I need a lot more power hitting. I know it's there, but it's been spotty at best. You can see how each of my players is doing by clicking the link of each name. Right now, my best hitter is Milwaukee 1st baseman Prince Fielder, my best starting pitcher is Atlanta's Tim Hudson, and my star reliever is (again from Milwaukee) Francesco Cordero.

I've signed up for a mid-season league as well. When it's activated and I have my draft I'll post the link to the team as well.

RFSJ